Seeing Fu Zhiyuan's inquiry, the old farmer smiled and said, "Isn't this an obvious thing?" Do you want to say more? ”

Fu Zhiyuan said: "Please also ask the old man to show me, this matter of repairing the embankment is also beneficial to your people, why don't you want to go?" ”

The old peasant said: "Alas, the government is too heavy, in the past, the military households of the guard should not be served, the gentry should not be served, only our private households should be served. We are closest to the river, and although the government has reduced or exempted our land rent, the service is heavier. ”

"The assignment is heavy, we ordinary people can only flee the famine, and being an official will only cut the township and merge the village, the more people go, the more people who don't leave, the people who don't go will suffer. We set along the river, every year the government picks the river, dredging, grass tops, willows, the first thought is our set. ”

Fu Zhiyuan's face was solemn, and he saw that the county officials had lowered their heads, and then asked the old farmer, "Then why is this year different?" ”

The old farmer said happily: "This year, we have only 30% of last year's service, and the government mainly hires its own river repairers, and our village descendants go to work on the embankment for two months, and they can pay one or two taels of silver." ”

"When the construction period is tight, every time we carry a basket or pick up a load of soldiers, the people of the government pay us on the spot, and I have sold a lot of strength at this age, and when the farm work at home is not tight, I went to work on the embankment for five or six days and earned more than 300 copper coins."

Fu Zhiyuan nodded, and Gu Zhixian said: "This is called cash money, the common people pay to buy cash land, how much work they do, how much money they make." ”

Fu Zhiyuan nodded and said, "This is very good, who came up with this method?" ”

Gu Zhixian said: "It was used by Liu Hetai to repair the Taihang embankment in the past. ”

Fu Zhiyuan nodded, and then said: "Old man, your county is a capable minister, and the people are blessed." ”

The old farmer smiled when he heard this, but he didn't speak.

Fu Zhiyuan observed the words and said, "Why am I not right?" ”

The old farmer said: "The former magistrate was a big corrupt official, don't talk about corruption, it's just that last year's conscription forced a lot of people to death." As for the current magistrate...... is a good official, but now we ordinary people can live, but it is all thanks to Lin Qingtian's blessing! ”

"Oh? Lin Qingtian? Which Lin Qingtian? ”

The old farmer smiled and said: "It's the champion prince, Lin Qingtian not only writes well, but also loves the people like a good official, he would rather let the government pay for the embankment, and also exempt most of the servants in our county." Tens of thousands of us people are grateful for his kindness. ”

Fu Zhiyuan thought a little when he heard this.

At this time, the old farmer sighed with emotion: "This matter of repairing the embankment, how many officials come and go, but just to make a sum of money and leave, only Lin Qingtian regards our ordinary people repairing the embankment as his own family matter and puts it in his heart." Xiao Lao'er still remembers that day when he came to our market, he said to our people in the pavilion at the entrance of the village that the emperor sent him here to be an official, so that he could build a good embankment for our people, a good embankment that will not be washed away for a hundred years, so that the people of Henan can live by the river for generations and live and work in peace and contentment. ”

"Lin Qingtian not only speaks well, but also sincerely does things for our people. Since then, the little old man has been looking at the embankment every day to see when the embankment will be repaired. When the little old man was eight years old, his father, mother, brothers and sisters were washed away by the water. If Lin Qingtian can really build this embankment, it will be built before the little old man is in the ground. I will go to the embankment and take a look, and in the future I will build the grave on the embankment, and guard the embankment for the rest of my life. ”

The officials were all touched when they heard this, and several officials were in tears.

Fu Zhiyuan shook the old farmer's hand and said to the officials on the left and right: "The people along the river are more urgent than anyone else about repairing the embankment, otherwise they will be the first to suffer when the flood comes." The ancients said that the people were not afraid of death, so why should they be afraid of death. Aren't the common people more urgent than the officials to repair the embankment? But the previous dispatch of the government caused the families of the people along the river to be ruined and everyone to desert, who is to blame? ”

The officials hung their heads in silence.

Fu Zhiyuan said to the old farmer: "Old man, this matter is that the court can't help you." ”

The old peasant was surprised: "What you said about it, are you an official?" ”

The left and right entourages all laughed, Fu Zhiyuan nodded and said: "Yes, I am an official errand, and if the government will send soldiers indiscriminately in the future, you can go directly to the lobby of the government to find me, I will be there at any time." ”

At this time, Gu Zhixian said: "Qiqi Futai, this county used to be very heavy in river service. But this year's reduction and exemption of military service is the work of Lin Sima, it is precisely like this, the people along the river have rich people's power, not to suffer from conscription, so they bury their heads in agriculture and mulberry, so as to have this bumper harvest in front of them. ”

Fu Zhiyuan groaned slightly when he heard this, and then said: "We've seen the embankment!" ”

At this moment, Lin Yanchao was in the Tongzhi Bureau, looking at Fu Zhiyuan's resume, which was collected by Qiu Mingshan's trustees.

Lin Yanchao regarded his resume as mediocre at first glance, but after a closer look, he saw Dian Mingtang.

After Fu Zhiyuan failed to rank twice at the age of twenty, he went to Shanxi to teach as a teacher, and after serving as a teacher for several years, he was admitted to the Jinshi.

At that time, after winning the Jinshi, he wanted to visit the first assistant, and all the Jinshi were presented with a door bag in the first auxiliary door, and he was not the only one. In the same year, he thought that his family was poor and wanted to give it for him, but Fu Zhiyuan refused, but said in front of the disciple, how could there be a reason for Jinshiba to be a child.

Then Fu Zhiyuan paid the price for his youth and was thrown to Yunnan as a magistrate. At the end of the three-year term, the backlog of cases was cleared, but the officials were not allowed to appreciate it, and they were only moved to the county.

Fu was the county governor for three years, and there was a political voice, so he moved to a certain place in Guangxi to serve as the governor. At this time, many of his peers were already Kedao, or Jingzhi.

Then Fu Zhiyuan was sick and recuperated at home for a while, before he was appointed as the Nanjing Taifu Temple, and then as a member of the Nanjing Household Department, Shi Su, Song flood, the people were homeless, he did not consult the imperial court, and privately opened a warehouse for disaster relief was impeached by the imperial history, but this move was appreciated and protected by the first auxiliary high arch.

When everyone thought that Fu Zhiyuan wanted to appreciate Feihuang Tengda with the high arch, the high arch fell in the first year of Wanli, and Zhang Juzheng was the first assistant.

Fu Zhiyuan was later appointed as the prefect in Shandong and Shaanxi, suppressed Haoyou, and persuaded Kenong Sang to have political achievements, but because of the high arch, the officials just refused to protect him, and finally went around and came to Henan.

Lin Yanchao pressed Fu Zhiyuan's resume, thinking to himself what kind of official is this Fu Zhiyuan?

While he was talking, Chen Jichuan entered and said, "Master, I can't find out where Futai is." ”

Lin Yanchao patted the case and said: "Didn't you ask Er to send a few capable people to keep an eye on it?" ”

Chen Jichuan said with sweat on his forehead: "Returning to the master, it is the fault of the villain, and the Fu prefect seems to have expected that the master will send someone to keep an eye on him." Therefore, the official sedan chair did not move, and took the entourage from the south of the city to hire a car and left the city. ”

At this time, Fu Zhiyuan, supported by his entourage, climbed the embankment.

In the distance, the river was surging, and the turbid waves crashed on the embankment one by one.

There is a large area of silt between the embankment and the embankment, and there is a lattice embankment between the embankment and the embankment before and after.

There are several culverts under the embankment, and the culverts are constantly pumping water, diverting water from the river to the embankment, and the silt surrounded by the embankment. Now more than a dozen river workers are patrolling the embankment along the embankment.

Gu Zhixian immediately ordered someone to call these river workers.

Fu Zhiyuan first inspected the top of the embankment, and the river had many disadvantages at that time.

In order to forge the embankment, officials deliberately cut off the top of the old embankment, planed it loose, and then put the loose soil on the embankment slope, passing it off as new soil, commonly known as "shaving the head", or shoveling off the old soil at the root of the embankment, and turning the loose soil on the embankment slope to pretend to be new soil, which is called "pedicure".

Together, these practices are called "head shaving".

Fu Zhiyuan immediately ordered more than a dozen entourages behind him to immediately check the embankment, and if in doubt, he took out a hoe on the spot and threw it away.

All the officials in Yucheng County are all in their hearts, and this move is too serious, leaving no room for people at all.

However, Gu Zhixian could see that this prefect was really powerful, and he did not easily listen to the words of the officials and the people, but personally went to the embankment to see it for believe. Seeing is believing, but it is necessary to get to the bottom of it, if Lin Yanchao really does something about the river fortifications, he will definitely not be able to hide this person.

Soon the entourage said: "Master Qiyu, there is no doubt that the embankments have just been renovated, and the subordinates have found a few embankments and thrown them down, and they are all good stones and materials, and there is no problem with the embankment workers, but they are ......."

"Just what?" Fu Zhiyuan was solemn when he heard this.

"It's just that the villain is strange, the villain patrolled the embankment, but he didn't see the earthen pond where the soil was taken."

Fu Zhiyuan asked Gu Zhixian and other officials, "What's going on?" ”

Gu Zhixian was worried in his heart and said: "I don't know this official, so I still ask the river worker." ”

Soon the river workers came here, and Fu Zhiyuan first asked, "What are you doing here?" ”

The river worker explained to Fu Zhiyuan: "This is to release the silt and fix the embankment, and when the water overflows to half a zhang, the culvert will be blocked, and after a few days of sunny days, three feet of silt can be accumulated." It is ten times better to build a dam with this silt than sand. ”

"All the embankments are made of silt?"

"Our river workers repair the embankment, there has always been silt and silt, no silt to find silt, this embankment is built, you can take silt everywhere to build a dam, save countless labor, and you can also plant silt fields in the embankment until September."

Fu Zhiyuan suddenly heard this, it turned out that this was taking soil from the embankment, no wonder he didn't see the soil pond.

One attendant questioned: "Why wait until September to build the embankment?" Build a dike and build a higher one, will it be possible to harvest two seasons soon? ”

"That can't be done, this move will harm the embankment, someone did that in the previous river worker, but it was ...... for Master Sima"

Fu Zhiyuan pinched his beard and said: "You can talk carefully to this government about this matter." ”

"Yes, Futai, things are so ......"

In this way, Fu Zhiyuan was in Yucheng County, inspected the river workers for a full day, and returned to the house the next day.

After Lin Yanchao heard that Fu Zhiyuan had returned home, he went to the house to inquire about the news without saying a word.

When he arrived at the front of the yamen, Lin Yanchao had just gotten off the sedan chair when he saw several clerks walking out of the torture room, holding the list text and a slurry brush, ready to post it in front of the notice list in front of the eight-character wall.

These clerks saw Lin Yanchao's sedan chair and immediately came to Lin Yanchao to pay tribute to him.

Lin Yanchao asked casually: "What's the matter?" ”

The secretary replied: "Returning to Sima, it is a notice on the disposal of the case of the government and the river workers this time!" ”

Oh?

Lin Yanchao took the list directly from the book office......

And in the river yamen in Jining, Shandong.

Li Zihua, the governor of the river, smashed the old pit duan inkstone in his hand on the ground, and said angrily to his subordinates: "Good Fu Zhiyuan, just too guarded, and dare to argue with this governor, you are the end of the official!" ”

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